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Omgeo Strengthens Management Team to Support Global Growth
Omgeo has promoted Timothy Keady from executive director, global sales to managing director, global sales and relationship management. He has also joined Omgeo’s executive team. Lee Cutrone, managing director of industry relations, will now also oversee Omgeo’s global marketing function. Martin Brennan takes on the new role of managing director, business development for the Asia-Pacific…
Quintillion Chooses Markit for OTC Derivatives Valuations
Dublin-based fund administrator Quintillion, founded in 2006, has partnered with Markit for OTC derivatives valuation provision. Quintillion runs its fund administration business on front and middle office technology from Paladyne and the Advent Geneva accounting system. Tim Barker, executive vice president and head of valuations at Markit, says this relationship will broaden the vendor’s reach…
IDC Awarded Patent for Fair Value Pricing of Financial Assets
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office for the fair value pricing of a financial asset. As Reference Data Review went to press, IDC also announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has been selected by HedgeSpeed Technology – provider of…
GoldenSource Appoints Neill Vanlint as SVP Client Operations EMEA and Asia
GoldenSource has appointed Neill Vanlint as senior vice president of client operations EMEA and Asia as part of the company’s strategy to support global business growth with particular focus on the emerging European and Asian financial markets. Reporting to Mark Zill, senior vice president of global client operations, Vanlint’s previous professional services role has been…
Bloomberg Should Succeed in Evals Business, TowerGroup Says
Bloomberg is likely to enter the evaluations business this year, and when it does make a proper attempt on the market, will probably have “reasonable” success. This is the view of TowerGroup analyst Matt Nelson, who presented the findings of the analyst’s recent report on the providers of evaluated pricing at the recent Technology Solutions…
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The world of reference data does not typically get associated with the newest and sexiest innovations in technology, more’s the pity. But there are signs that this is changing, with a growing number of players active in the service oriented architecture (SOA) space rounding on reference data distribution as a target area for implementation of…
Fairhead to Replace Fallon on Interactive Data Board
Interactive Data Corp has appointed Rona Fairhead to its board as one of five Pearson-affiliated directors. She succeeds John Fallon, who resigned earlier this month. Fairhead is chief executive of the Financial Times Group, where she is responsible for overseeing the Financial Times newspaper, the Economist Group, the FTSE Group joint venture with the London…
Euroclear Builds ISO 20022 CA Messages for Issuer to CSD Leg
Euroclear is building a set of ISO 20022 corporate actions messages for issuer to CSD communication, as part of its move to a single platform across all its markets and the implementation of its new Common Communications Interface. The new messages will replace existing proprietary electronic communication between issuers or issuers’ agents and the CSDs…
EDI Avoids LSE Policy Change By Generating UK CA Data Itself
Data vendor Exchange Data International (EDI) is to compete head to head with the London Stock Exchange on UK corporate actions data, in a move it positions as being a direct response to recent data pricing and distribution policy changes by the LSE. EDI has been a vocal critic of the changes affecting LSE’s corporate…
Ascend Launches Checker to Address IBAN/BIC Requirements
Cross-border payments specialist Ascend Global Solutions has added Checker to its suite of J2EE products. Checker is a web-based tool designed specifically to mitigate the effect of the recent BIC to IBAN initiative, which requires that all euro payments must have valid branch and account numbers to avoid the risk of rejection and penalty charges….